A beowulf for parallel instruction.

[Greg Lindahl]

> I certainly agree about the model. I'm not clear about
> the extent to which there is commonality  below MPI, in
> the choice of compilers for instance, or even whether
> this is a significant factor in approaching "use".

Most big sites concentrate on standards-compliant compilers, for portability
reasons, and support a variety of languages: Fortran 9X, C, C++. You can get
plenty of sample MPI code so your students can run something without having
to necessarily write their own.

-- g